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Elevation of Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa

Brakpan, Gauteng, South Africa is 1,625 m (5,331 ft) above sea level.

Brakpan's height from sea level is 1,625 metres, or 5,331 feet. GeoNames reads 1,631 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,631 m.

Also written: Tsakane.

Ground within 5 km

1,593 m – 1,655 m

Mean 1,627 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 62 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 23

among the towns of Gauteng, and 21st of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Benoni

7.1 km to the NW, at 1,637 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Brakpan

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Brakpan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,6541,570WE27.3 km
West to east: from 1,598 m at 14 km west to 1,576 m at 14 km east.
1,6541,570NS27.3 km
North to south: from 1,642 m at 14 km north to 1,619 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Brakpan, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Brakpan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Benoni 7.1 kmNW 1,637 m (5,371 ft) +12 m
Springs 8 kmE 1,607 m (5,272 ft) −18 m
Boksburg 10.6 kmW 1,621 m (5,318 ft) −4 m
Nigel 22.8 kmSE 1,557 m (5,108 ft) −68 m
Alberton 24.5 kmW 1,574 m (5,164 ft) −51 m

Where Brakpan is

Latitude -26.2376669, longitude 28.36523. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Brakpan elevation: 1,625 m (5,331 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Brakpan's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 1,631 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.